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Purple background with cyan plus signs and red text reading "I Love Richard" in four identical sections.

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Purple background with cyan plus signs and red text reading "I Love Richard" in four identical sections.

Purple background with cyan plus signs and red text reading "I Love Richard" in four identical sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible changes

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • quadrant arrangement
  • scattered elements

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with a solid purple background. Cyan plus signs are scattered across the background. Four identical sections of red text appear: "I Love Richard" in a pixelated font. Each section is positioned in a quadrant-like arrangement. The text and plus signs are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Purple background with cyan plus signs and red text reading "I Love Richard" in four identical sections.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • Richard

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I Love Richard
  • purple cyan plus signs
  • pixelated text
  • quadrant arrangement

Visible Text

  • I Love Richard

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • cyan plus signs
  • red text
  • I Love Richard
  • pixelated font
  • four identical sections
  • scattered plus signs
  • quadrant arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070806145126374165778
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
633 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c2/c21320bafe29e1cfcd6b6fc0b65ae4b0f7fc0bc65eaadf92eb477801cbdf6b32.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
c21320bafe29e1cf
SHA-256
c21320bafe29e1cfcd6b6fc0b65ae4b0f7fc0bc65eaadf92eb477801cbdf6b32
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116386

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Purple background with cyan plus signs and red text reading "I Love Richard" in four identical sections.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,361 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,102, response 618

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible changes (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • plus signs (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible changes

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • purple
  • cyan
  • red

Composition

  • quadrant arrangement
  • scattered elements

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with a solid purple background. Cyan plus signs are scattered across the background. Four identical sections of red text appear: "I Love Richard" in a pixelated font. Each section is positioned in a quadrant-like arrangement. The text and plus signs are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Purple background with cyan plus signs and red text reading "I Love Richard" in four identical sections.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • Richard

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I Love Richard
  • purple cyan plus signs
  • pixelated text
  • quadrant arrangement

Objects

  • plus signs

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • text
  • plus signs

Visible Text

  • I Love Richard

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • cyan plus signs
  • red text
  • I Love Richard
  • pixelated font
  • four identical sections
  • scattered plus signs
  • quadrant arrangement
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:36 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Full source records (1)
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20070806145126374165778
Archive entry
20070806145126374165778.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture
Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070806145126374165778.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070806145126374165778.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016